Book for Parents: The Genius and Design of the Domestic Constitution, with Its Untransferable Obligations and Peculiar AdvantagesPerkins, Marvin & Company, 1834 - 420 pages |
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... Almighty ? Let but one only of these be disdained , or even forgotten - say , the imperious , and unchanging , and universal obligations of its domestic circle ; then in vain shall that people apply many medicines -in vain devise prompt ...
... Almighty ? Let but one only of these be disdained , or even forgotten - say , the imperious , and unchanging , and universal obligations of its domestic circle ; then in vain shall that people apply many medicines -in vain devise prompt ...
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... Almighty on his way to the sad scene , calls for Abraham , saying , " Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do ; seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation , and all the nations of the earth shall be ...
... Almighty on his way to the sad scene , calls for Abraham , saying , " Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do ; seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation , and all the nations of the earth shall be ...
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... Almighty set the solitary in families . Every family has in fact a sacred character belonging to it , which may indeed be forgotten or disdained ; but the family is constituted , and ought therefore to be conducted , with the prospect ...
... Almighty set the solitary in families . Every family has in fact a sacred character belonging to it , which may indeed be forgotten or disdained ; but the family is constituted , and ought therefore to be conducted , with the prospect ...
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... , indeed , seems to be one intention of the Almighty , according to an interesting passage in the New Testament Scriptures . * Lowth . † Scott . It is manifest from it , that marriage is symbolical 30 DOMESTIC CONNECTIONS .
... , indeed , seems to be one intention of the Almighty , according to an interesting passage in the New Testament Scriptures . * Lowth . † Scott . It is manifest from it , that marriage is symbolical 30 DOMESTIC CONNECTIONS .
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... Almighty the sole and exclusive venera- tion and worship of all his intelligent creatures , and in order to this , he addresses himself to the root or head of every family . Clothing the parent with high authority , as he intended to do ...
... Almighty the sole and exclusive venera- tion and worship of all his intelligent creatures , and in order to this , he addresses himself to the root or head of every family . Clothing the parent with high authority , as he intended to do ...
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Page 201 - For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment; that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.
Page 232 - And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.
Page 316 - MASTERS, give unto your servants that which is just and equal ; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.
Page 52 - Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me: he that walketh in a perfect way, he shall serve me. He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.
Page 42 - Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth : thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them...
Page 101 - The acceptance of and continuance hitherto in the office to which your suffrages have twice called me have been a uniform sacrifice of inclination to the opinion of duty and to a deference for what appeared to be your desire. I constantly hoped that it would have been much earlier in my power, consistently with motives which I was not at liberty to disregard, to return to that retirement from which I had been reluctantly drawn.
Page 397 - EXCEPT the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it : except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
Page 161 - By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise; for he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
Page 404 - Incline your ear, and come unto me : hear, and your soul shall live ; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
Page 127 - Tis now become a history little known, That once we called the pastoral house our own. Short-lived possession ! But the record fair, That memory keeps of all thy kindness there, Still outlives many a storm, that has effaced A thousand other themes less deeply traced.